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Sarah Palin stated on November 17, 2009 in her book, Going Rogue:

Says she couldn't take stimulus money because it required "universal building codes."

By Robert Farley • November 16, 2009

Sarah Palin stated on November 12, 2009 in a note on Facebook:

Under the House health care bill, the government "will have to penalize citizens if we choose not to buy a plan that will cost a minimum of about $15,000 per family per year."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 13, 2009

Sarah Palin stated on October 17, 2009 in a note on Facebook:

The proposed excise tax on "Cadillac" health plans will hit "those making less than $200,000" the hardest.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 21, 2009

Sarah Palin stated on September 23, 2009 in a speech to investors in Hong Kong:

"The Defense Department received only one-half of 1 percent of the nearly trillion-dollar stimulus package funding."

By Ian Jannetta • September 29, 2009

Sarah Palin stated on August 12, 2009 in her Facebook page:

A provision in the health care reform bill for end-of-life counseling for seniors is not "entirely voluntary."

By Robert Farley • August 13, 2009

Sarah Palin stated on August 7, 2009 in a message posted on Facebook:

Seniors and the disabled "will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 10, 2009

Sarah Palin stated on July 14, 2009 in a Washington Post op-ed:

On a cap-and-trade plan.

By Catharine Richert • July 20, 2009

Sarah Palin stated on July 14, 2009 in an op-ed article in the Washington Post.:

"Job losses are so certain under this new cap-and-tax plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting dried-up energy sector, to the tune of $4.2 billion over eight years. So much for creating jobs."

By Catharine Richert • July 16, 2009

Sarah Palin stated on June 8, 2009 in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox:

Palin said stimulus money for weatherization required "universal energy building codes for Alaska, kind of a one-size-fits-all building code that isn't going to work up there in Alaska."

By Robert Farley • June 11, 2009

Rachel Maddow stated on April 6, 2009 in an episode of her MSNBC show:

Gov. Sarah Palin "got precisely zero support for her call for Alaska's Democratic Senator Mark Begich to resign because Ted Stevens' corruption conviction was overturned."

By Alexander Lane • April 10, 2009

Sarah Palin stated on October 11, 2008 in an interview with reporters:

"The truth was revealed there in that report that showed there was no unlawful or unethical activity on my part."

By Robert Farley • October 14, 2008

Sarah Palin stated on October 2, 2008 in St. Louis, Mo.:

"We're building a nearly $40-billion natural gas pipeline, which is North America's largest and most expensive infrastructure project ever."

By Alexander Lane • October 3, 2008

Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund stated on September 26, 2008 in a TV ad:

"Palin (proposed) a $150 bounty for the severed foreleg of each killed wolf."

By John Frank • October 1, 2008

Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund stated on September 26, 2008 in a TV ad:

Palin supports "aerial hunting of wolves and other wildlife."

By John Frank • October 1, 2008

Bloggers stated on September 12, 2008 in blog postings on many Web sites.:

Sarah Palin endorsed a Wasilla policy that charged sexual assault victims for their "rape kits."

By Bill Adair • September 22, 2008

John McCain stated on August 31, 2008:

Palin had "executive experience" in the PTA.

By Robert Farley • September 4, 2008

John Kerry stated on August 31, 2008 in an interview on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos.":

"Gov. Palin ... is somebody who actually doesn't believe that climate change is man-made."

By Keith Perine • September 3, 2008

MoveOn.org stated on September 2, 2008 in an e-mail.:

"(Palin) supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000."

By Edward Epstein • September 3, 2008

Fred Thompson stated on August 31, 2008 in St. Paul, Minn.:

Sarah Palin "has more experience than Barack Obama."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 2, 2008

Sarah Palin stated on August 29, 2008 in Dayton, Ohio:

"As governor, I've stood up to ... the big oil companies."

By Alexander Lane • September 1, 2008

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